Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Restoring Layered Landscapes
History, Ecology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration - particularly...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Theory and Design Examples, Volume 1
Principles and Basic Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples. These...
Ecocatalysis
A New Integrated Approach to Scientific Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Reconquest of biodiversity; remediation of degraded and anthropic areas, prevention of environmental health risks; eco-innovation; Green industry ... The current French ambitions are closely related to an interdisciplinary approach to scientific ecology, all of which participate in the expected industrial...
Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems
A Guide for Hazard Evaluation and Water Quality Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Selenium is a naturally occurring trace element that can become concentrated and released by industrial, agricultural, petrochemical and mining activities. At concentrated levels it is toxic and has polluted ecosystems around the world. This book will serve as a comprehensive practical handbook for...
Fractivism
Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together...
Transient Landscapes
Insights on a Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Landscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Air and Waste Management
A Laboratory and Field Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
This manual will serve a useful function in training and giving experience to environmental scientists at all levels. Included in this manual are explanatory materials, exercises and experiments. These are intended as training guides. The users of this manual will find it possible to use simple equipment...
Tar Wars
Oil, Environment and Alberta's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As place branding assumes paramount importance in an increasingly global, visual,...
by Thomas A Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Bumbling Through Borneo, an educational yet comical trek through Borneo’s hinterland, takes the reader on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters as they stumble across the natural treasures and indigenous cultures of the Malaysian...
Sustainable Engineering
Principles and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices. Due to increasing constraints on resources and on the environment and effects...
River Ecosystem Ecology
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, River Ecosystem Ecology reviews the function of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as the varied activities and interactions that occur among their abiotic and biotic components. Because the articles are drawn from an encyclopedia, the articles...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Air and water pollution occurs when toxic pollutants of varying kinds (organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on) are directly or indirectly discharged into the environment without adequate treatment to remove these potential pollutants. There are a total of 13 book chapters in three sections contributed...
by Debra A. Reid, David D. Vail
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone who wants to better understand the environment that surrounds us and sustains us, who wants to become a better steward of that environment, and who wants to share lessons learned with others. The process starts by focusing attention...